their proof just doesn't fit1. they were able to come up with 500.000 excess bricks. that doesn't mean that 5/6 seasoned lego builders can't come up with 5 million2. their ball broke down, so they must have glued their bricks to a lightweight ball they could just have been smart enough to glue the entire lego ball together.3. the ball didn't even dent the car this one i can't explain

The point was it took half a million bricks to make a ball that size - five million would be substantially larger. Also, this one weighed only a ton and a half - 5 million bricks would weigh 15 tons. Two people can't roll something like that as easily as shown, it took the four of them to get their ball rolling. Glue might have helped keep the thing intact though, and it would have been hilariously evil if Adam and Jamie showed up and told them to do it again, but with glue this time...

Anyways, I've already seen images of the "real" one used for the viral vid - it was a foam ball covered with large gray baseplates, to which they stuck random bricks to make it look like it was built instead of faked. Even some of those broke off while filming, but they edited it out.

I cried a little on the inside when it crumbled apart. It was kinda like watching your favorite football player recieve the ball from the otherside of the field and run all the way to the opposite end, only to have him spontaneously explode right before he reached the endzone.

SkwerlJones wrote:I cried a little on the inside when it crumbled apart. It was kinda like watching your favorite football player recieve the ball from the otherside of the field and run all the way to the opposite end, only to have him spontaneously explode right before he reached the endzone.

The keyword being kinda.

that disintegration scene was my favorite part. i thought it was cool how it just spilled out like a chocolate with a liquid filling being cracked open. best part i say.

well that and seeing jesus leonidas GARY on camera. that was cool too.

I think it was donated/volunteered... I seem to remember a call a while ago for FOLs to send all their unwanted 2x4s for this. I could just be completely making that up though, I don't trust my memory at all.

The slow-motion disintegration of the ball in HD was epic! I couldn't believe how quickly it fell apart.

Solo wrote:I think it was donated/volunteered... I seem to remember a call a while ago for FOLs to send all their unwanted 2x4s for this. I could just be completely making that up though, I don't trust my memory at all.

I'm thinking that seems like too many bricks to drum up that way. I just added up the totals for all new & used 2x4 bricks for sale on BrickLink in black, blue, white, red, yellow, green, and dark & light bley & grey, (The most common colors) and it came up to just about 270,000.

I don't know why Mythbusters had to test this...anyone can see that the colors on the boulder do not match up on two sides of a corner, therefore not being real bricks...just pieces on baseplates glued on. Cool to watch them test it anyway though!

As far as getting the bricks....it looks like they're opening up bags of bricks directly from Lego.

I'm on a slow dial-up line at the moment, so the video was rather jerky and I didn't catch most of what was said by the presenters. Was there any discussion of brick size vs. quantity / weight ? When they opened the boxes it looked like mostly 2x4s, but after the ball broke up there were all sorts of other size and shape bricks on the ground.

If you're only counting bricks then a ball made of one million 2x4 bricks is obviously going to be twice as big as one made of one million 2x2 bricks.

^I guess the myth was a) that a ball the size of what is seen in the video would require 5 million bricks to construct, and b) that if such a ball were constructed, it would roll lightly down a hill, and come to a dead stop when hitting a car, not causing any damage.

The value of the segment wasn't so much corroborating the idea that the original was faked. It was more to see, could what they claimed to do in the original video actually be done? But it turns out that the idea that a 7-foot tall LEGO ball can roll down a hill for any appreciable distance is a myth!